We encourage you to know your ayurvedic constitution so you can make gentle lifestyle changes the can make a difference in how you feel and look.

We suggest you take the simple Prakriti Dosha Quiz from Banyan Botanicals. We are affiliates of Banyan. We use their fine organic herbs ourselves. Click on the tab at the top of the page maeked "Banyan Dosha Quiz" to find out more about your constitution from an ayurvedic viewpoint.

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One of the herbal combinations that we take daily is Triphala. We put 1/2 teaspoon in hot water and let it sit through the day, and then drink in the evening, at least 1 hour after dinner. Triphala tones the digestive tract and helps relieve an excess of any of the doshas. We have found that Triphala really helps with malabsorption problems. You will benefit more from the foods you eat by including Triphala in your daily routine. Triphala strenghtens the elimanation system so you are cleansing your body more thoroughly on an ongoing basis.

You may prefer to take the Triphala tablets, shown above, or the Triphala liquid extract, also available at Banyan Botanicals.

Some of the other herbs we use often are: Turmeric, Ashwaganda, Guggulu, Guduchi, Shatavari, and Tulsi. We cook with lots of fresh ginger and use Cumin, Coriander, Cardamon, Cinnamon, Cloves and Black Pepper. We adjust the herbs we use seasonally. Be sure the herbs you buy are organic. We also love tea with Tulsi and Rose Petals.

We love to eat lots of organic greens such as kale and mustard greens. We often have mung dahl and rice with greens. Yum.

What does it mean that our EcoBotanica products are "Ayurvedic"? It's this: that we look at the beauty and abundance of the natural world from an Ayurvedic perspective.

We prefer ingredients that are very lightly processed. We do not seek out chemically improved - "modern chemistry for better living" -ingredients. Too much processing creates Vata imbalance in the body and therefore the skin. Vata has a purpose, but beyond that, since it is composed of ether - space - air, it is drying, cold, dispersing, and disorganizing. It disrupts the warmth and moisture impulses of the body and the structural wisdom of the body. Computers, cell phones, TVs, microwaves, and the fast modern lifestyle with its loss of connection to nature are already Vata disrupting.

Our ingredients are mostly organic and are collected from mechanically cold-pressed seed oils, hydro-distilled essential oils, simple extracts of herbs, plant substances, and earth-sourced minerals, combined while blending the ingredients and chanting. Our emulsifiers are naturally occurring plant and vegetable compounds. Our preservatives are plant-based, and this was the most challenging part of creating the formulations. Most health food store products contain at least phenoxyethanol which has been associated with central nervous system damage in larger amounts. Those products also often contain parabens, which have been found to be harmful, and EDTA, which also can create problems.

We don't use highly processed ingredients because we want to protect your Vata and the Vata of our environment, the Earth.

We formulate our products from an ayurvedic viewpoint, keeping in mind the energetics of the substances we use. Each plant substance brings its own gifts. Some are more Vata, with cooling and dispersing energies. Others are Pitta - warming and transforming. Kapha energies are cooling and calming. As you learn more about your own body/mind/spirit balance you can make more informed choices.